COLUMN: Injury is cruelly ironic for Freeman

12:39 AM,
Jul. 16, 2013

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A glance around the sports world from my perch behind the desk at the Hattiesburg American ...That would happen ...

I was a member of the crowd that didn't want to see the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig make the National League All-Star team. His short time in the Majors, despite being eventful and, quite frankly, pretty remarkable, doesn't merit a place on the All-Star team when there are deserving players who have been performing well all season long.

But that argument is neither here nor there. Our camp won, and Puig will be watching the All-Star game with the rest of us. ...